Horizon (noun):
1. The apparent intersection of the earth and sky as seen by an observer.
2. The limit or edge of the observable universe.
3. The range of one's knowledge, experience, or interest.
A nun. A river. A journey.
Who can say?
You tip over the edge of one world and into another.
Sometimes it feels like falling from a cliff, plunging into the hungry maw of the ocean.
Sometimes it feels like a river rises around you. Water bubbling over your feet, tugging insistently upon the hem of your dress, flowing over the top of your head.
This time it feels like ice cracking beneath your bare feet. A sudden, sharp fear driven like a spike at the base of your skull.
You cannot say for certain what this place is. Words have never been your strong suit and even less so the educated ones a proper scholar might use. You’ve a guess, of course, but it is something you’ve always kept close.
This is where you do your work. It is not a difficult leap.
The water is frigid and pitch-black. You feel hands ghosting over your body, your hair, your face. Thumbs brush your closed eyelids. You see. The currents of the water around you are suddenly illuminated; faint blue, glowing dim against the swallowing darkness around you.
They should be brighter. They should be moving with great joy. Yet when you reach for those currents they react slowly and hang limply; dying. They flicker when you reach too far and your cry of anguish escapes your throat in bubbles.
Dread spirals out from that point of fear; tendrils wrapping slimy feelers around your spine, your ribs, pulling itself into the hollow of your chest to feast and grow. In that cold, in that dark, among dying, twinkling lights it is easy to curl around it. To see the dread as certainty.
As always, you are saved from yourself.
The feeling of hands come once more. Impressions of fingers pulling at your limbs, unfolding them, drawing your head up and directing your gaze --
West.
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Sleeping arrangements in Tural
Raha tends to wiggle his way out from between Ki'to and Koana and settle himself atop Ki'to in the middle of the night, so the others just kinda conform around him at this point.
Ki'to doesn't have the heart to tell him it's too hot for that because he takes one look at his sleepy face all nuzzled into his neck and melts.
Thus, he's just taken to sleeping naked to at least have no other source of heat. (Not that it helps too much-)
At least they have the ceiling fan...
Outtakes below the cut because I was cackling at parts of the process.
Ki'to's pale ass making it look like the printer ran out of ink-
Also, apparently Koana is just a bit taller than min height, because he's taller than Ki'to and Raha. xD
KI'TO NO-
I mean, I get it but-
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V Ctrl+V Ctrl+V Ctrl+V Ctrl+V Ctrl+V-
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